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Re: Check Accessibility of Office Document...on a Mac

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From: Sean Murphy
Date: May 22, 2016 8:29PM

Running Windows as a VM on the Mac is doable and relabel. You can use a screen reader in the VM environment as well. I do this on a regular bases for testing purposes.

Remapping the insert key is required to use the insert key. There is a good blog from Marco Ze that explains how to achieve this without using any remapping app in Windows.

The key with VM images is to allocate the correct resources.

Sean

> On 23 May 2016, at 10:14 AM, Dominic Capuano (gmail) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Elizabeth;
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> Regarding Mac emulation of Windows it has been my experience that this does not work very well. Emulation is difficult to set up and very unreliable, (it crashes a lot). You also cannot use NVDA or JAWS as the MAC keyboard is not mapped in the same way, (there is no insert key on the MAC keyboard).
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> It would be more cost effective for you to buy a mid-priced Windows machine than take the time to do emulation.
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> Dominic Capuano
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Pyatt
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Check Accessibility of Office Document...on a Mac
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> Hello:
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> I think I may know the answer already, but is there any easy way to check the accessibility of any Office doc on the Mac platform?
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> AFAIK:
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> 1. The Mac version of Office does not yet have a built in accessibility checker. You have to manually check each image for ALT text and make sure your document is correctly structured with headings, clear link text, tables with headers….
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> 2. The only other method I know of is to install a Windows emulator with Office for Windows. Then you can open your document and use the Windows built-in checker or any other Windows-powered Office checking tool.
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> If I am missing anything, I would definitely love to know….
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> Thanks
> Elizabeth
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> Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D.
> Co-Chair Accessibility Technology and Information Committee
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> http://accessibility.psu.edu
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